A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.

By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.

The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.